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LAST UPDATE | 26 Feb 2020
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Maybe the prison officers should turn a blind eye, let them at each other and save the taxpayer lots of money.
@Brian Smith: well it appears to me that you are no different than these lads. You are happy to use violence & murder to reach your desired outcome. I suggest that these lads lead a long life in prison & never get out & also make sure they cannot run their businesses from inside. That would be great to see. Killing them is the easy way out.
@Mjhint: you left your moral compass at the church gates
@Brian Smith: you left your moral compass on the slaughterhouse for
@Brian Smith: it doesn’t work like that. The costs of running the prison don’t decrease significantly with fewer numbers of inmates. A few euro a day is all it costs per inmate, id bear that cost myself to see this animal caged for a life sentence.
@Emachine: It costs around €200 a day to keep a prisoner in this country.
@Mjhint: when your dead you don’t know it. Best to let him live on the edge every day even if costs the taxpayer.
@Brian Smith: what about the cost of hospital bills?
@Brian Smith: that would be a great Quentin Tarantino film… not exactly real life though. Maybe in the Philippines?
@Emachine: if we have one less prison it will decrease costs…or more space to keep other stores in there longer
@Emachine: it actually costs between 100k and 250k a year to house a high security prisoner in Ireland. I am not sure where you got your few euro a day, but it is complete nonsense.
@Mjhint: fool
@Mjhint: many of them won’t lead a long life in prison at all..maybe a 10/15 year sentence.
@Emachine: A euro a day???
Must be very hard for the prison officers to contend with this level of dirtbags,they don’t get paid enough for the job.
@Paul Mc: agree but they are all peanuts compared to what the rest of the world deal with
@Paul Mc: Don’t get paid enough. Having a laugh. Bouncers should get paid more. Prison officer have best pay and condition. Better than Guards which is hard to believe. Male dominated jobs always had strong unions. Nurses need better pay.
On campus….. interesting use of language. I suppose the inmates are “customers” or ” prison service end users”.
@David McShite: calm down, it comes from the Latin word for field. A modern campus is a group of buildings and/or grounds belonging to a given institution.
Comments aren’t closed? Strange for the journal… either way… he’s a serious c u next Tuesday
@Stephen Boland:
There’s no trial pending
High-octane. This is not the fast and the furious. Try to be serious journalists please.
Let them dice it out. Tough guys can take care of themselves. Or so they say.
He should be removed to the cemetery
Unfortunately, whilst they are in custody they have to be protected, human rights & all that, plus they will sue the state if injured.
It would be great if they could simply be put to sleep. Or maybe have a large blender in the courtroom. Upon conviction, the criminal is ejected into the blender. Problem solved. Plenty of biofuel there.
@Bewarethebeardz: ha!
Campus.. what a word.. on a serious note.. they all should be out cracking rocks roughly 12hrs a day everyday.. all privileges removed.. etc its s joke of a prison system.. and prison officers. Unions..
I thought he had been moved out of mountjoy
@Mr Jerry Curtin: He has, he’s in Portlaoise.
What is badly needed in this and every other country is a really hard prison, under the control of the military for the hard men and the incorrigibles. I know that doesn’t suit the agenda of the P.C. brigade but desperate situations require desperate remedies.
Ahh is he scared?! Diddums
Let em all at it
I think you’ll find that Thompson is actually in Portlaoise Prison, not Mountjoy.
@Crispin Rodwell: another journal.ie mix up,come on guys at journal.ie ,do some research first.
Exclusive? Have the journal got someone in the inside? This thug needs to be put on an island in isolation, wouldn’t even bother supplying a toilet.
A Ford Fiesta as a getaway car? Somehow, I don’t think these boys are high flying gangsters.
Give the 2 of them knives and let them at each other
How awful for him lol.
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